Challenges of Getting to Mars: Curiosity's Seven Minutes of Terror

Team members share the challenges of Curiosity's final minutes to landing on the surface of Mars.

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[MrStrategyInformer]

This is worthwhile. $50M high school football stadiums in Texas is not.

[MrSatchboogie33]

0.6 of a penny on your tax dollar in the U.S.

[ecyor0]

Money.

When your country is locked in an arms race with the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union has reached every other space milestone ahead of you, the government is much more willing to throw large sums of money at lunar missions.

There's nothing stopping us from going back to the moon, technologically speaking. The problem is getting the money to do it.

[James Moriarty]

so how did we go to the moon 45 years ago???

[newmanfrigan]

Absolutely stupendous engineering achievement. I love it.

[newmanfrigan]

Haha! Thought the same thing. This time we're the saucer from space!

[talyaip]

This is simply amazing.

[aic53]

Man that was tense!

[ecyor0]

Half a million views on an unlisted video.

I think that's doing quite well :P

[notlerta]

Mas as cordas ficaram presos no rover, poderão se enrolar nas rodas e daí já era a operação !!!

[danthemanzizle]

YES! aliens would be proud.

[Bernardette Enochian]

Amazing! And it worked!!